US Trade Fraud Task Force Recovers Over $1B In 10 Months

By Dylan Moroses

In just under a year, the U.S. has recovered over $1 billion as a result of enforcement efforts led by the cross-agency Trade Fraud Task Force, and the U.S. Department of Justice will establish a new legal section to prosecute trade crimes, a department official said Tuesday. 

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Nespresso Can't Ditch Most Bias Claims By Ex-Employee

By Celeste Bott

A former Nespresso employee has plausibly alleged that race was a motivating factor in decisions denying her promotions and pay raises that were instead granted to less-qualified white employees, an Illinois federal judge ruled Monday, denying most of the company's motion to dismiss while also tossing claims against individual defendants.

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Meta Employees Say AI-Tainted Layoffs Should Be Blocked

By Vin Gurrieri

Over two dozen Meta employees accused the tech giant of unlawfully picking them to be laid off using artificial intelligence tools that penalized people who took protected leave or received workplace accommodations, and they urged a California federal court to suspend their terminations until their legal claims are resolved.

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States Will Get $18M From 23andMe Ch. 11 For Data Breach

By Brian Steele

A week after a bankruptcy court approved a $46.75 million settlement between the DNA testing company 23andMe and data breach claimants, a coalition of more than 40 states announced Tuesday that they would share in an additional $18 million to resolve claims of unreasonable security practices.

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Threats To Kill Trump, Burn Court Net 3-Year Prison Sentence

By Lauraann Wood

A Chicago resident has been sentenced to three years in prison for threatening to kill President Donald Trump and burn the courthouse where a judge was presiding over his state foreclosure case, federal prosecutors announced Monday.

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SEC Case Alleging Misvalued Funds Trimmed By Ill. Judge

By Jessica Corso

An Illinois federal judge has trimmed claims in a long-running U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission suit accusing a fund adviser of misleading investors about the performance of some of the funds it oversaw, finding that the agency didn't provide evidence that the adviser intentionally made misstatements about the funds' compliance with accounting standards.

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Vape Co. Seeks $314K Judgment Over Alleged Unpaid Order

By Jonathan Capriel

The Illinois-based owner of the Urb vape brand is asking a federal court to issue a $314,000 default judgment against a California company that ordered tens of thousands of empty vape devices but allegedly never paid for them, saying the company "refused to defend itself" in the case.

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Northwestern Prof Alleges Pro-Palestinian Stand Cost Tenure

By Grace Elletson

Northwestern University denied tenure for a journalism professor and set him up for termination because he spoke openly about his support for Palestinians and blocked police from clearing a student encampment protesting the institution's ties to Israel, according to a suit filed in Illinois federal court.

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7th Circ. Backs $25K Cap On 'Business Property' Lost In Fire

By Hope Patti

A Chubb unit properly limited coverage to $25,000 for the contents of an Illinois mansion that was destroyed in a lightning-sparked fire, the Seventh Circuit ruled, saying the use of the contents for commercial purposes barred the owner from accessing a higher $3.5 million coverage limit.

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7th Circ. Says TCPA Do-Not-Call Limit Doesn't Cover Texts

By Nadia Dreid

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act's do-not-call restrictions do not apply to text messages, a Seventh Circuit panel declared Tuesday, roughly six weeks after the panel expressed skepticism during oral arguments that "telephone call" could also mean "text message."

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Blanche Called Anti-Weaponization Fund 'Mistake,' Per Durbin

By Courtney Bublé

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Tuesday the anti-weaponization fund created as part of the president's settlement with the IRS was "a mistake," according to Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., after his meeting with Blanche.

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Justices Seek More Funds Over Increased Threats, Talk Ethics

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan made rare Capitol Hill appearances Tuesday, discussing the court's budget request for fiscal 2027, the "shadow docket" and ethics issues.

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Quinn Emanuel, Spiro Ousted From CoStar Copyright Fight

By Elliot Weld

A California federal judge has disqualified Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and its attorney Alex Spiro from representing a commercial real estate platform in a copyright infringement suit brought by CoStar, agreeing that the firm's representation of CoStar in a different case should result in its removal from this one.

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Bronx Defenders Union OKs Strike 1 Year After Last Walkout

By Andrea Keckley

The Bronx Defenders has become the third New York City-based legal aid organization to authorize a strike this month, which comes just one year after the group's most recent walkout.

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Trump Lawyer Matthew Schwartz Confirmed To 2nd Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 50-45, along party lines, on Tuesday to confirm Matthew Schwartz, one of President Donald Trump's personal attorneys and a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

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Ky. Law Prof Wants Court To Block Judge For Dean Pick

By Hailey Konnath

A University of Kentucky law professor asked a federal court to block U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove from becoming the next law school dean, claiming that the appointment has "stripped the faculty" of their credibility on the basis of peer review.

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Calif. Bar Settles With Administrators Of 'Disastrous' Bar Exam

By Andrea Keckley

The State Bar of California has reached a settlement with the administrators of its "disastrous" February 2025 bar exam, whose array of highly publicized technical glitches prevented hundreds of aspiring lawyers from completing the test.

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